She pauses from her work to tell me a story from when she was in art school, at Cooper Union: One day an instructor brought in a famous Cecil
Beaton Vogue story in which models are posing in front of Jackson Pollock paintings.
Not exact matches
Cecil
Beaton (British, 1904 - 1980) Mock Puppet Theatre (Angelica Welldon and Nina Matleva) for
Vogue, 1936.
Cecil
Beaton, then at the early stages of his career as a fashion photographer and working at
Vogue, as well as celebrated painter Stanley Spencer were among over 130 British artists on view at this Biennale.
Photographically, American work will remain in focus, thanks to the all - encompassing National Portrait Gallery show Americans, comprising portraits from Washington's National Portrait Gallery, not to mention Unseen
Vogue at the Design Museum which will include magazine work by the great Irving Penn alongside usual suspects
Beaton, Bailey and Newton.